Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Palo Alto, CA

• Hybrid (4 days/week on-site)
• Full-time

Compensation

$200K–$300K base + equity + annual bonus

About the Company

Our client is a Series A startup building an AI-native platform that helps consumer brands manage and grow their social communities, pairing autonomous community management with social listening. The product already handles millions of brand conversations every week across a few hundred customers, and new enterprise brands are coming on board weekly. The founding team comes from big-tech product and engineering leadership, and the company is backed by top-tier venture investors.

Founded 2023

Industry

AI, Ecommerce, Marketing, Consumer

The Role

We're helping our client hire one of their first dedicated infrastructure engineers. You'd take ownership of the systems that keep a fast-growing, high-volume AI platform reliable, while staying hands-on across the stack. This suits someone who's comfortable with large data volumes and ambiguity, and who can get productive quickly without a lot of hand-holding.

What you'll be doing

• Owning reliability and scale for the distributed systems behind high-volume data ingestion and real-time AI agents
• Building and improving ETL pipelines and data infrastructure on AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, and ClickHouse
• Working across the stack in Python, TypeScript, or Java on automation, internal tooling, and product features alongside product and design
• Sharing a 24/7 on-call rotation, supporting customers, and leading incident response as new enterprise accounts go live
• Strengthening infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi), CI/CD, and observability so the team can ship quickly and safely

Tech stack

Python, TypeScript, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, Temporal

Requirements

• At least five years working in site reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• A track record of running production systems in an SRE, infrastructure, platform, or DevOps capacity
• Time spent at a startup within roughly the last four to five years
• A university degree
• Comfort writing real code (Python, TypeScript, or Java) to build automation, tooling, and operational services
• Hands-on depth with AWS or a comparable cloud, plus infrastructure-as-code
• Practical experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes
• Willingness to be in the Palo Alto office four days a week
• Authorization to work in the US, or a visa that can be transferred (new sponsorship isn't available)

Nice to Haves

• You've built an SRE function from scratch, or matured one, at an early-stage or fast-scaling company

Why Join

• Be one of the first dedicated infrastructure engineers and shape how the platform scales
• Work on genuine scale from day one, with millions of conversations moving through the system every week
• Join a newly funded Series A team that's signing enterprise customers every week
• Competitive base, early equity, an annual bonus, and relocation support

Details

• Location: Palo Alto, CA
• Work policy: Hybrid, 4 days/week in-office; relocation support available
• Compensation: $200K–$300K + equity + annual bonus
• Visa sponsorship: Visa transfers only (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers); no new sponsorship
• Employment type: Full-time